This morning we were treated to a presentation on Richard With (pronounced Wit - I was pronouncing it as it reads which presented problems with some sentence construction...) the founder of Hurtigruten. The very, very abbreviated story is that when Norway was looking for a company to sail along the coast of Norway and provide a way to travel more easily from one town to another, he (having considerable sailing/sea experience) said yes. He was the only company out of three to agree, and the route was called Hurtigruten. Later as his company evolved, it also became known as Hurtigruten. Over many, many years of changing and adapting, the success of the Hurtigruten company followed from there. Today it is owned by a British investment firm, but is still flourishing and growing.
We stopped in Stokmarkenes where they have a museum on Richard With and the history of Hurtigruten. The ship MS Finnmarken is under renovation in dry dock, and an expanded museum will open in the summer of 2020.
This passage is from a diary kept by Richard With’s daughter during a journey on one of the first Hurtigruten ships.
MS Finnmarken in dry dock.
Some museum exhibits.
This has nothing to do with Hurtigruten or Richard With. Just pretty.
This passage is from a diary kept by Richard With’s daughter during a journey on one of the first Hurtigruten ships.
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